Maintenance of certification in Internal Medicine: participation rates and patient outcomes

Dolores Buscemi,Helen Wang,Michael Phy,Kenneth Nugent

Tackling the readmission epidemic: a resident teaching service perspective

Ravi K. Sharma,Pradeep Dhakarwal,Janelle Violago,Robin Bhasin

Postoperative thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura after aortofemoral bypass

Naba R. Mainali,Madan R. Aryal,Madan Badal,Vijaya R. Bhatt

Readmissions – a quality metric with financial penalties?

Rohit Gulati

Maintenance of Certification – important and to whom?

Paul M. Kempen

An interventional pilot study on obesity among low-income patients using a computer-based weight management module

Tracey Doering,Susan Harwell,Cheryl Fassler,Kesley Burr

Parapneumonic empyema diagnosed by chest radiograph and computed tomography

Ning Jin,John Paul Brady,David M. Widlus

CT pulmonary angiography: an over-utilized imaging modality in hospitalized patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

Penchala S. Mittadodla,Sunil Kumar,Erin Smith,Madhu Badireddy

Congenital complete heart block in a 71-year old

Kareem Abed,Marc Mugmon,Majd Alfreijat,Robert P. Ferguson

Are we training residents to communicate with low health literacy patients?

Nadia K. Ali

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives Second Anniversary

Robert P. Ferguson,Christopher D. Kearney

Editor's notes

Robert P. Ferguson

The emperor's new clothes: hypersensitivity of the new cardiac isoenzymes

Ma Ai Thanda Han,Vivek Cherian,R. Dobbin Chow

Pott's disease: a case of Mycobacterium xenopi infection of the spine

Majd Alfreijat,Chiagozie Ononiwu,Carlton Sexton

Shortness of breath after AV ablation: case of left phrenic nerve palsy

Irene Lambiris,Jinesh Mehta,Marcelo Helguera

Thirty years of blackouts: a case report of swallow syncope

Irene Lambiris,Ivan Mendoza,Marcelo Helguera,Jose Baez Escudero

Complete esophageal obstruction following endoscopic variceal band ligation

Harjit Chahal,Anita Ahmed,Carlton Sexton,Abhijit Bhatia

A review of common methods to convert morphine to methadone

Eric Wong,Kathryn A. Walker

History of insulin

Celeste C. Quianzon,Issam Cheikh

Intermittent left bundle branch block

Mansoor Mozayan,Marc Mugmon

Autoimmune encephalopathy associated with thyroid autoantibodies as the cause of reversible cognitive impairment

Natallia Maroz,Nechama Bernhardt,Robert Dobbin Chow

Meningitis retention syndrome

Abhishek Krishna,Pavan Devulapally,Ibrahim Ghobrial

Lack of efficacy of ergocalciferol repletion

Amal Kebede,Corey Ephrussi,Meredith Lamanna,Jorge Scheirer

History of current non-insulin medications for diabetes mellitus

Celeste C. L. Quianzon,Issam E. Cheikh

Preventing the inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria at a community teaching hospital

Farhana Chowdhury,Kumkum Sarkar,Angela Branche,Juliette Kim

Campylobacteremia in stage IV gliosarcoma with bevacizumab treatment

Ping Liu

Perspective on plagiarism

Robert P. Ferguson,Marita Mike,Stephanie M. Griffin,Carole Lever

Splenic infarction associated with bacterial endocarditis and aortic valve vegetations

Muhamed Jasarevic,Christopher Laird,David M. Widlus

A brief review: history to understand fundamentals of electrocardiography

Majd AlGhatrif,Joseph Lindsay

Imaging of carotid artery dissection

Mansoor Mozayan,Carlton Sexton

Be aware of wires in the veins: a case of superior vena cava syndrome in a patient with permanent pacemaker

Agegnehu T. Gebreyes,Hom Nath Pant,Donna M. Williams,Sapna P. Kuehl

A case of probable non-familial early onset Alzheimer dementia in a Hispanic male

Corey Ephrussi,Richard Alweis

CT scan for suspected acute appendicitis

David M. Widlus

My appendectomy

Malek Cheikh

Implementation of a heart failure readmission reduction program: a role for medical residents

Jennifer Rabbat,Daniel R. Bashari,Rajnish Khillan,Manisha Rai

Am I losing it?

Norman M. Mann

Academic workforce trends in community hospitals

Britta L. Anderson,Jay Schulkin,Hal C. Lawrence

Non-traditional therapies for diabetes: fact or fiction

Elena Forouhar,Paul Sack

Personal health care of internal medicine residents

Venkataraman Palabindala,Paul Foster,Swetha Kanduri,Avanthi Doppalapudi

Vitamin C-induced oxalate nephropathy: a case report

Harmeet Gurm,Mohamed Ali Sheta,Noel Nivera,Allan Tunkel

Atrial flutter with aberrant conduction in a patient taking amphetamine salts and caffeine

Marc Mugmon

Incidence of extreme hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in hospitalized patients during the month of July in teaching hospitals

Mansur Shomali,Malek Cheikh

Acute endocarditis in intravenous drug users: a case report and literature review

Yan Ji,Lara Kujtan,Dawn Kershner

Hemolytic uremic syndrome and Clostridium difficile colitis

Maryam Keshtkar-Jahromi,Mahsa Mohebtash

Anniversary issue of JCHIMP

Diagnostic yield and renal complications after computed tomography pulmonary angiograms performed in a community-based academic hospital

Zacharia Reagle,Steven Tringali,Narinder Gill,Michael W. Peterson

Imaging diagnosis of aspergilloma

Chantal Youssef,David M. Widlus

The value of reporting cases

Peer review

Robert P. Ferguson,Stephanie M. Griffin

In the SOAP: the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) from the perspective of a Community Hospital Residency

Stephanie Detterline,Robert Ferguson